WorksheetsM.A.D.
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Worksheet time: 15mins
What is the M.A.D. theory?
A military theory of nuclear deterrence holding that neither side will attack the other if both sides are guaranteed to be totally destroyed in the conflict.
A competition for supremacy in nuclear warfare between the United States, the Soviet Union, and their respective allies.
American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War by providing political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces.
A theory of craziness in global politics that meant a constant threat of nuclear fallout.
What was the unsuccessful attempt by USA at overthrowing the Cuban communist government called?
Operation Barbarossa
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Bay of Pigs
The Marshall Plan
Why did Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev secretly deploy nuclear missile to Cuba?
Because he had intended to nuke the USA all along.
Because he wanted to counteract the threat from U.S. missiles in Italy and Turkey,
Because he wanted to help a fellow communist country fight capitalism.
Because he was using the Caribbean island as a nuclear weapon storage unit.
What was US President J.F.K. first advised to do by his military think tank (ExCom) after U.S. intelligence discovered missiles in Cuba?
Military advisors urged the interception of all shipments to Cuba.
Military advisors urged the building of fallout shelters all around the country.
Military advisors issued a war cry against communism.
Militar advisors urged an airstrike on missile sites and invasion of the island.
What did US President Kennedy choose to do which ensued the most intense days of the Cuban missile crisis?
A quarantine of the island, which meant to intercept all shipments to the island but to not block basic necessities.
A total naval blockade of the island.
The deployment of nuclear weapons at strategic U.S. airforce bases in countries surrounding the USSR.
An intense phone call with Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin.
What proposal did Attorney General Robert Kennedy and Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin reach after intense negotiations?
The U.S. would remove their missiles from Cuba and promise to never invade the USSR in exchange for Soviet promise not to attack US military bases in Turkey and Italy.
The U.S. and the USSR would not interfere in Cuban affairs and both would hand in nuclear weapons to the UN.
The U.S. would remove their missiles from Turkey and Italy and promise to never invade Cuba in exchange for the Soviet withdrawal from Cuba under U.N. inspection.
The USSR would order Soviet submarines not to launch nuclear torpedoes and U.S. would promise not to spy Soviets in Cuba.
What was the name of the drills children in the USA practiced during the 50's and 60's so that they would be prepared to act in the event of an atomic bomb explosion?
Hide and seek
Turtle moves
Duck and turtle
Duck and cover
What was installed between Washington and Moscow to help defuse similar situations the year after the Cuban Missile Crisis?
A direct telephone link between the White House and the Kremlin known as the “Hotline".
An anti-ballistic missile (ABM) system.
A naval blockade.
A non-aggression pact which includes a promise by the signatories not to engage in military action against each other.
What historical event which ended WWII fuelled the flame of distrust between the USA and the USSR and began an arms race between the two superpowers?
The test explosion of an American nuclear bomb in the Marshall Islands.
The destruction of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by American atomic weapons in August 1945.
The detonation of a thermonuclear bomb (the so-called Tsar Bomba) in a test over Novaya Zemlya island in the Arctic Ocean on October 30, 1961.
The Cuban Missile Crisis.
What was the European Recovery Plan, a.k.a. Marshall Plan?
It was a U.S. -sponsored program from 1948 to 1951 which was designed to help free peoples to maintain their free institutions and their national integrity against aggressive movements that seek to impose upon them totalitarian regimes.
It was a U.S.-sponsored program designed to rehabilitate the economies of 17 western and southern European countries in order to create stable conditions in which democratic institutions could survive.
It was the American declaration of immediate economic and military aid to the governments of Greece, threatened by communist insurrection, and Turkey, under pressure from Soviet expansion in the Mediterranean area.
None of the other options.
In 1948 the Soviet authorities announced that the Autobahn, the highway connecting western Germany to Berlin, would be closed indefinitely “for repairs”. Then, they halted all road traffic from west to east, and barred all barge and rail traffic from entering West Berlin. Thus began the blockade of Berlin. What was the Soviet intention behind this maneuver?
The Soviets hoped the blockade would effectively starve the Western powers out of Berlin.
The Soviets hoped the blockade would effectively help to build a unified Berlin.
The Soviets hoped the blockade would effectively subjugate the Eastern countries.
The Soviets hoped the blockade would effectively show the Western powers their military might.
What was the name of the effort made by the U.S. and its allies to supply their sectors of West Berlin with more than 2.3 million tons of cargo from the air?
Berlin Blockade
Iron Curtain
Berlin Airlift
Berlin Wall
What excerpt is part of Truman's address on March 12, 1947 before the Congress, which came to be known as the Truman Doctrine?
"Neither the sure prevention of war, nor the continuous rise of world organisation will be gained without what I have called the fraternal association of the English-speaking peoples. This means a special relationship between the British Commonwealth and Empire and the United States."
"Within the past week, unmistakable evidence has established the fact that a series of offensive missile sites is now in preparation on that imprisoned island. The purpose of these bases can be none other than to provide a nuclear strike capability against the Western Hemisphere."
"I believe it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures".
"[We consider] the violation of the freedom
of navigation in international waters and air space to constitute
an act of aggression propelling humankind into the abyss of a world nuclear-missile war."
Who were the "Big Three" leaders attending the Yalta Conference in February 1945?
W. Churchill, F.D.Roosevelt & J. Stalin
J. Stalin, H.S. Truman & F.D. Roosevelt
C. Attlee, H.S. Truman & J. Stalin
W. Churchill, C. Attlee & N. Khrushchev
What was one of the key points of the meeting at Yalta in early 1945?
They decided that the URSS was to pay postwar reparations to those countries within its sphere of influence.
They decided that Germany would be divided into four occupation zones administered by U.S., British, French, and Soviet forces.
They decided that the USA was to carry out an airlift over their occupied zone in Berlin.
They decided that Europe was to be divided into two spheres of influence, the Western and Eastern Bloc respectively, separated by a metaphorical Iron Curtain.
Was was the name of the Treaty of Non-Aggression (Neutrality) between Germany and the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) signed in 1939 during WWII?
Operation Barbarossa
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Tripartite Pact
Lebensraum
To what WWII event is Churchill undoubtedly referring to in these lines from his Sinews of Peace speech of March 5, 1946: "We understand the Russian need to be secure on her western frontiers by the removal of all possibility of German aggression"?
The Operation Barbarossa in 1941 by which 3 million Nazi troops marched eastwards to seize Moscow and other Russian cities, breaking the non-aggression promises signed with the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact two years earlier.
The combined effort of 150,000 allied forces getting to the shores of Northern France in the so-called Operation Overlord (a.k.a. D-Day) in 1944.
The Lebensraum theory according to which species successfully adapting to one location would spread naturally to others because of their need of living space.
The British retreat at Dunkirk in 1940.
Who pronounced these famous words: "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia, all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and, in many cases, increasing measure of control from Moscow"?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
Harry S. Truman
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
How did Soviet leader take Churchill's Sinews of Peace speech?
The Russian leader Joseph Stalin denounced the speech as “war mongering".
The Russian leader Joseph Stalin viewed the English as valuable allies in the Cold War.
The Russian leader Joseph Stalin argued for an even closer “special relationship” between the Soviet and the American peoples.
The Russian leader Joseph Stalin praised Churchill in his attempt to mediate in the Cold War between the URSS and the USA.
What was the name of the collective defence treaty, ideologically opposed to NATO, and established in 1955 by the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe (Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania)?
The Treaty of Non-Aggression (Neutrality), a.k.a the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.
The Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation and Mutual Assistance, a.k.a. the Warsaw Pact.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
The Tripartite Pact.
